My first phonograph
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My first phonograph
Este foi meu primeiro fonógrafo de tocar cilindros, um Columbia modelo AT com última patente de 1897. Nunca foi restaurado, está todo original com exceção da corneta e do reprodutor, tinha vendido à uma amiga e tentado comprar de volta inúmeras vezes. Não é que neste sábado ela me ligou para me oferecer de volta? Bem vindo ao lar...
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That's one nice looking machine! And congratulations on getting it back!
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Cool phonograph and cool story!
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Nice machine!
It's a Type A, though, not an AT.
Bill
It's a Type A, though, not an AT.
Bill
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Lucius1958 wrote:Nice machine!
It's a Type A, though, not an AT.
Bill
Curioso pois a plaqueta indica o modelo AT...o que pensar?
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Very attractive machine. Congratulations!
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Re: My first phonograph
This is an original, early AT. The earliest ones used a model A case and lid.
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Re: My first phonograph
Translation:Andreas Gramophones wrote:Este foi meu primeiro fonógrafo de tocar cilindros, um Columbia modelo AT com última patente de 1897. Nunca foi restaurado, está todo original com exceção da corneta e do reprodutor, tinha vendido à uma amiga e tentado comprar de volta inúmeras vezes. Não é que neste sábado ela me ligou para me oferecer de volta? Bem vindo ao lar...
This was my first cylinder phonograph, a Columbia model AT, last patent 1897. It has never been restored, it is all original except the horn and reproducer. I had sold it to a friend and tried to buy it back numerous times. Last Saturday she called to offer it back to me. Welcome home...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thanks Harvey Kravitz for clarifying, I had read something about it but I did not remember, that's exactly it.Phonofreak wrote:This is an original, early AT. The earliest ones used a model A case and lid.
Harvey Kravitz
Thank you also to all the generous comments.
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Early-case Columbia AT
I also have such a machine, an early AT in a A-style case. The serial on mine is 208166. It has the Sears Roebuck overlay on the bottom right corner of the banner, which George Paul has dated to a very specific and rather narrow band of time that I have now forgotten and didn't write down.
If we can get him to tell us again, here, we will all know - plus I'll be able to copy it down and put it inside the machine.
I think the A and early AT therefore only differ in the configurations of their motors, where the A has no spring barrel and the AT does. The A has a different serial number sequence, with an example having sold on ebay recently with s/n 79467.
I wonder whether the serial numbers for the early AT started at 200,000? I just can't see them making more than 206,000 to get to the one shown in this thread, considering how rarely the early style shows up today.
If we can get him to tell us again, here, we will all know - plus I'll be able to copy it down and put it inside the machine.
I think the A and early AT therefore only differ in the configurations of their motors, where the A has no spring barrel and the AT does. The A has a different serial number sequence, with an example having sold on ebay recently with s/n 79467.
I wonder whether the serial numbers for the early AT started at 200,000? I just can't see them making more than 206,000 to get to the one shown in this thread, considering how rarely the early style shows up today.